95. Author: Saba Bebawi Title: Media Power and Global Television News: The Role of Al Jazeera English Publisher: I.B. Tauris, UK Year: 2016 Language: English
Description: The Middle East has been a particular focus of global crisis reporting. Yet, international coverage of these conflicts has historically been presented through a ‘Western’ perspective. The absence of Arab voices in the global public sphere has created a discursive gap between the Middle East and the rest of the world. The arrival of Al Jazeera English could be regarded as an attempt to bridge this gap by broadcasting discourses from and about the Arab world. Using a framing analysis of selected news reports by Al Jazeera English before and after the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ protests, this book considers Al Jazeera English’s position in the global news environment and identifies the extent to which it addresses this gap between the Arab and global spheres 96. Author: Tal Samuel Azran Title: Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations:
Al Jazeera and Qatar’s Soft Power Publisher: Peter Lang, Switzerland Year: 2016 Language: English
Description: This book argues that Al Jazeera media network is not an agent of globalization, as is widely argued, but a tool used by the Qatari government to advance its political as well as Islamist goals. The book also maps the Western tendency to reject the network outright despite Al Jazeera’s billion-dollar investments designed to gain entrance into Western markets. The author shows empirically that this rejection is similarly rooted in religious, cultural and national motives. This book asserts that the main outcome of Al Jazeera’s media activities is the promotion of religious and cultural conflicts in the world. The network persistently portrays global events through the prism of conflicting religious and cultural values, propelling a clash of civilizations as per Samuel Huntington’s well-known thesis.
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